388 CHAP. 303 Time for completion of Pen. C. R. R. extended. PENOBSCOT CENTRAL RAILROAD.-PENOBSCOT RIVER, ETC. Chapter 303. An Act to extend the time for the construction of the Penobscot Central Railroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The additional term of two years, from and after the thirtyfirst day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, is hereby granted to the Penobscot Central Railroad Company, in which to organize, locate and survey its route and complete its railroad. Approved March 2, 1883. H. H. Perkins et als. vested with exclusive right to navigate Penobscot river in Greenbush. Privileges forfeited, unless boats are in operation within two years. Interference with running, booming or rafting logs, not authorized. Chapter 304. An Act authorizing Hannibal H Perkins to navigate Penobscot River between Oldtown and Birch Island in the town of Greenbush. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Hannibal H. Perkins, his associates and assigns, are hereby authorized and vested with the exclusive right of employing and navigating every kind of boat or water craft propelled by steam on Penobscot river between Oldtown falls in the town of Oldtown and Birch island in the town of Greenbush for the term of ten years, for the purpose of towing logs. SECT. 2. Unless the boat or boats, provided for by this act, be put in actual operation within two years from the passage thereof, the power and privileges herein granted shall be forfeited and of no effect. SECT. 3. Nothing in this act shall authorize or be construed to interfere with the running, booming and rafting of logs in said river. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 2, 1883. POLICE COURT OF ROCKLAND.-PRESQUE ISLE ACADEMY. Chapter 305. An Act to amend "An Act to establish a Police Court in the city of Rookland," approved March fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section thirteen of "An Act to establish a police court in the city of Rockland" is hereby amended by striking out in the seventh and eighth lines of said section, the words "such amount as the mayor and aldermen shall determine," and by inserting instead thereof the words 'five hundred dollars,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows; 389 CHAP. 305 Sec. 13, ch. 78, private laws 1861, amended. Court room, etc., to be provided by the city. established. SECT. 13. Said city of Rockland shall have power, and it shall be its duty, to raise money to provide a suitable room in which to hold said court, and to furnish the same in an appropriate manner, including stationery, record books, fuel, lights, and other things necessary to accommodate said court. The judge of said court shall receive from said city in quarter- Salary of judge yearly payments, at the close of each quarter, an annual salary of five hundred dollars, which shall be in full for all fees pertaining to said office; and the judge of said court shall not act as counsel or attorney in any case within the Judge not to act jurisdiction of said court, nor in any such matter or thing which may depend on or have relation to in any case, matter or thing depending or cognizable in said court.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 2, 1883. as counsel. Chapter 306. An Act to authorize the Trustees of Presque Isle Academy to sell and convey real and personal estate. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The trustees of Presque Isle Academy are hereby authorized to sell and convey any real or personal estate of said corporation, at private sale, for such price as they may deem. reasonable. Approved March 2, 1883. Trustees authorproperty. ized to sell 390 CHAP. 307 Charter revived and extended. PASSADUMKEAG R. R. CO.-TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CO. Chapter 307. An Act additional to "An Act to incorporate the Passadumkeag Railroad Company." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. "An Act to incorporate the Passadumkeag Railroad Company," approved January twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and extended February twenty, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, for a term of six years, is hereby revived, and its provisions extended for a further term of six years. SECT. 2. Said railroad company may, if it think best, commence its road at some point in the town of Passadumkeag. Approved March 2, 1883. Corporators. Chapter 308. An Act to incorporate the Rockland and Vinalhaven Telegraph and Telephone Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. F. S. Walls, J. P. Armbrust, Moses Webster, Nelson Mullin, Maynard Sumner, J. R. Bodwell, E. P. Walker, E. L. Estabrook, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body politic by the name of the Corporate name. Rockland and Vinalhaven Telegraph and Telephone Company, with all the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties and obligations, granted and prescribed by the general laws of this state relating to corporations. Route. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to own, construct, maintain and operate a line or lines of telegraph and telephone from the city of Rockland, in the county of Knox, through Camden, Lincolnville, Northport, to the city of Belfast, in the county of Waldo, and from said Northport to Islesboro', North Haven, Vinalhaven, Hurricane Isle, Deer Isle and Castine, or from said Rockland, through South Thomaston, to North Haven, Vinalhaven, Hurricane Isle, Deer Isle, Castine and Islesboro', upon and along any public highway, railroad, bridge or private lands, but in such manner as not to incommode or endanger the customary public use thereof, with the right to cut down trees and remove CHAP. 308 obstacles, when necessary, within the limits aforesaid, except Powers. ornamental, fruit or shade trees, and with the power to establish and collect tolls on said line or lines. estimated. SECT. 3. If the land of any individual or corporation is Damages, how taken under this act, and the parties cannot agree on the damage occasioned thereby, they shall be estimated, secured and paid in the manner provided in case of land taken for railroads. SECT. 4. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to connect its line or lines with those of any other telegraph or telephone company or corporation, or to sell or lease its line or lines of telegraph and property and telephone and property, either before or after completion, to any other telegraph or telephone company or corporation, upon such terms as may be mutually agreed upon, which sale or lease shall be binding upon the parties; or may purchase or lease any other line or lines of telegraph or telephone upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon. Authorized to connect with, sell or lease to other lines, etc. SECT. 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall be of Capital stock. such amount as said corporation may from time to time determine to be necessary, but not exceeding the sum of fifty thousand dollars, for the sole purpose of owning, constructing, maintaining and operating the line or lines of telegraph or telephone hereby authorized or contemplated, and said corporation may purchase, hold sell and convey all real and personal property necessary for the purposes contemplated in this charter. how called. SECT. 6. Any two of the corporators named in this act First meeting, may call the first meeting of the corporation, by mailing a written notice, signed by both, postage paid, to each of the other corporators, seven days at least before the day of the meeting, naming the time, place and purposes of such meeting, and at such meeting, a president, secretary, treasurer Officers and and directors may be chosen, by-laws adopted, and any corporate business transacted. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 2, 1883. by-laws. CHAP. 309. Company authorized to extend its line. Chapter 309. An Act to authorize the Ellsworth and Deer Isle Telegraph Company, to extend their line. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The Ellsworth and Deer Isle Telegraph Company is hereby authorized and empowered to extend their line from Ellsworth in the county of Hancock, to Bangor in the county of Penobscot, with the right to erect, maintain and operate the same, with the same privileges and subject to the same limitations and restrictions that are conferred and imposed upon said company, by their original act of incorporation, approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Approved March 2, 1883. Sec. 4, ch. 195. private laws 1883, amended. Trustees, number of, fixed. -quorum. Chapter 310. An Act to amend "An Act relating to the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section four of bill entitled "An Act relating to the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College," approved February eight, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is hereby amended by striking out the word "six" after the word "section," in the fifth line, and inserting in place thereof the word 'five,' so that, as amended, said section shall read as follows: SECT. 4. The number of said board of trustees shall not, at any time, be less than twenty, nor more than twenty-five, except that the president of the faculty shall, ex-officio, be a member of the board for the time being, and as hereinafter provided in section five, two-thirds of whom shall be members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in regular standing, and nine shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.' Approved March 2, 1883. |